In her talk on ‘Working memory and education’ Professor Susan Gathercole, Director of the Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit spoke on how whenever we need to hold multiple items of information in mind for further processing or imminent retrieval, it’s our working memory that we depend on. In her keynote address at the BPS annual conference held this year in Harrogate, Sue described her lab’s research showing how this mental capability varies between children, and the implications this has for their performance at school.  For a full report see here.